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Once was meeting up with a friend to go crabbing. He showed up with some fellow he knew from his dive shop and asked if it would be OK for this guy to join us. Sure. This particular dive site is known for silty, low-vis conditions ... so the plan was to stay shallow and if we got separated we'd just surface and regroup. Sure enough, as soon as we started chasing crabs, separation happened. No problem ... we're in 20 feet of water. I head up. My usual buddy's up a few seconds and a few feet behind me. Our instabuddy never surfaced. After a few tense moments, someone on shore hollered out that she could see bubbles WAAAAY OUT THERE ... which, of course, we couldn't see being only a few inches off the surface. We held our position for a few moments, then swam in, thinking to call for help. Just as we were about to place the call, our third diver surfaces and swims in. When I asked him what happened, he told us he decided the crabbing would probably be better down deeper, so he swam down to 70 feet, where he caught his limit. When I mentioned that we were pretty worried when he disappeared, he told us "I'm OK diving by myself".
That was fortunate, because we both refused to do the next dive with him ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
That was fortunate, because we both refused to do the next dive with him ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)